Boone County officials have requested that a special prosecutor be brought in to handle Zionsville Town Council President Elizabeth E. Hopper's drunken driving case.

Hopper, 46, was charged in Boone County with operating a vehicle while intoxicated endangering a person, operating a vehicle with an alcohol concentration equivalent to 0.15 percent or more, public intoxication and operating a vehicle while intoxicated after her Sept. 25 arrest.

On Friday, Boone County Prosecutor Todd Meyer filed a petition requesting that the court appoint a special prosecutor due to "a conflict and/or an appearance of a conflict of interest," stating that the appointment is necessary to avoid the appearance of impropriety.

IndyStar has reached out to Meyer's office for more information about the nature of the conflict of interest.

Hopper's series of misdemeanor charges stem from her traffic stop and subsequent arrest by Zionsville police in the area of Hunt Club and Ford roads.

The arresting officer stopped Hoppers 2016 Subaru Outback after seeing the vehicle drive over the sidewalk and curb while turning west on Hunt Club Road from Ford Road, according to court documents.

During the stop the officer smelled alcohol on Hopper's breath and noticed that her speech was slurred. The officer also said that the heat in the vehicle was turned "on full blast" to mask some of the odor.

Court documents said a portable breath test administered at the scene indicated that Hopper had a blood-alcohol content of 0.19 percent, more than double the 0.08 threshold for legal intoxication in Indiana.